Abandoned Prisons You Can Visit

If you are curious about life behind bars and want to visit some of the world's most notorious and harshest prisons, you now can. Here are 10 decommissioned prisons that are open to the public for tours of all kind.

Used by King Charles as a prison for rebel Parliamentarians in the English Civil War, after 100 years it was closed. Now it has be remodeled and includes apartments, restaurants and an art gallery, but you can still visit the part that remains of the prison on a guided tour.

Learn what life was like inside these creepy castle-like walls. The prison operated for over 140 years and been made safe for visitors now after sitting for so long. Now it's a major tourist attraction with a self-guided tour narrated by Steve Buscemi.

Now a UNESCO World Heritage site, Port Arthur is where a colonial prison settlement operated. Said to be haunted, it now operates ghost tours at the prison and takes boats out to the Isle of the Dead, where prisoners' remains were buried once they died.